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You're still here
Imagine you’re in a room
Some can be BIG or small
But near the top of the ceiling is a light
One you can barely see
You’re lying on the ground
Wishing for someone to hear your muffled cries
For anyone to just come and pick you up
And someone does
They save you from the pit of insanity you were engrossed in
You see a staircase appear
Only one step
But as you find others who can help you
Who wants to help
More stairs appear
And sometimes they can break
When your walls come crashing down
And you want to give in
You just want to go back to the eternal slumber you were so desperate to stay in
But when you start to rebuild again
They build faster
And faster
Until you find a door with the light from before shining from underneath
You feel the warmth radiating from it
A warmth you haven’t felt in years
It’s just your decision to allow yourself to feel that again
To feel love
Hope
All the things you lost
You have to allow yourself to accept who you are
Be who you are
Not the character you’ve created
The monsters you’d seen
No longer would scare you
While others have gone on before you
Who got too tired
You kept going
You're still here
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I wrote this poem as a letter of forgiveness. The original poem is much longer, but this part is what always stood out to me. When I was dealing with my depression, I did it alone. Until I was finally able to talk to someone about it, which was the best decision I've ever made. My hope for this piece is that others can fight the battle that comes along with depression and that they can find someone, or even build up the courage to ask for help.